Just so stories, How the Whale Got His Throat, sentence 6
And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’
Who acts: small, you · What happens: say, have, taste · To what, where: small stute voice, Man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 small | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fish | compound |
| 6 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 voice | punct |
| 12 | stute | stute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Noble | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Noble | punct |
| 16 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Cetacean | cc |
| 18 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Cetacean | amod |
| 19 | Cetacean | Cetacean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Noble | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 tasted | nsubj |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 tasted | advmod |
| 24 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | ccomp |
| 25 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tasted | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 tasted | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the small | a small stute voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | taste | past | you | Man | ever | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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